52. Special allowances (other than Woolclassers and Shearing shed experts)

[Varied by PR724570, PR729290, PR729479, PR740884, PR762145, PR762308, PR773920, PR774088, PR786573, PR799316, PR799473]

NOTE 1: Regulations 3.33(3) and 3.46(1)(g) of Fair Work Regulations 2009 set out the requirements for pay records and the content of payslips including the requirement to separately identify any allowance paid.

NOTE 2: See Schedule C—Summary of Monetary Allowances for a summary of monetary allowances and method of adjustment.

52.1 Allowance where sleeping quarters are not provided

If the employee does not reside at their home or usual place of residence and is forced to obtain and pay for sleeping quarters away from the employer’s premises because the employer is unable to provide sleeping quarters at the premises for the employee during a shearing or crutching, the employer will:

(a) arrange for sleeping quarters for the employee to be supplied elsewhere at the employer’s expense; or

[52.1(b) varied by PR729290, PR740716, PR762145, PR773920, PR786573, PR799316 ppc 01Jul26]

(b) pay to the employee an allowance of $68.59 per night during the employee’s employment that the employee is forced to obtain and pay for sleeping quarters; and

(c) provide or pay for the transport of the employee between the sleeping quarters and the shed where the distance is one kilometre or more walking distance between the employee’s sleeping quarters and the shed.

[52.2 varied by PR729290, PR740716, PR762145, PR773920, PR786573, PR799316 ppc 01Jul26]

52.2 An allowance of $22.63 per hour will be payable to the employee for all time in excess of one hour spent travelling between the sleeping quarters and the shed.

52.3 If an employee resides at their home or usual place of residence and travels daily to the shed during a shearing or crutching, the following provisions will apply:

(a) Travelling allowance—Shearers or Crutchers only

[52.3(a) varied by PR729290, PR740716, PR762145, PR773920, PR786573, PR799316 ppc 01Jul265]

A travelling allowance of $20.36 per day will paid to an employee where the distance between the shed and the employee’s place of residence exceeds 65 kilometres by the most direct practicable route upon which the employee so travels.

(b) Vehicle allowance—all employees

[52.3(b) varied by PR724570, PR729479, PR740884, PR762308, PR774088, PR799473 ppc 01Jul26]

If an employee, by prior arrangement and agreement with an employer, uses their own motor vehicle to travel to and from the shed, the employee will be paid $1.00 per kilometre for travel by the most direct practicable route between the shed and the employee’s normal place of residence.

52.4 Clause 52.3(a) and 52.3(b) of this award will not apply in any case where the employer offers the employee suitable accommodation at the shed and the employee chooses not to use it.

52.5 Breakdown of machinery—allowance for delays and termination of agreements

(a) If a Shearer or Crutcher or a piecework Woolpresser:

(i) is stopped from working through a breakage or failure of machinery, except from any cause over which the employer has no control, and

[52.5(a)(ii) varied by PR729290, PR740716, PR762145, PR773920, PR786573, PR799316 ppc 01Jul26]

(ii) the total period of all such stoppages which occur in any one week exceeds 2 hours working time,

the employer will pay to the employee an allowance at the rate of:

 $239.98 per day in the case of not found employees and

 $197.93 per day in the case of found employees,

for every day or part of a day beyond 2 hours’ of working time in any one week as long as there are sheep fit to shear.

(b) The not found breakdown rate is calculated as the old breakdown rate multiplied by the new Shearers rate per 100 divided by the old Shearers rate per 100 (less found deduction if found employee).

Schedule C—Summary of Monetary Allowances

[Varied by PR724570, PR729290, PR729479, PR740716, PR740884, PR750789, PR762145, PR762308, PR773920, PR774088, PR786573, PR786739, PR799316, PR799473]

See clauses 18, 32, 33, 43, 51, 52, 53 and Schedule A—Shearing Operations—Methods for calculating Minimum Rates for full details of allowances payable under this award.

C.1 Wage-related allowances

[C.1.1 varied by PR729290, PR740716, PR762145, PR773920, PR786573, PR799316 ppc 01Jul26]

C.1.1 The following wage-related allowances are based on the standard rate as defined in Schedule A—Shearing Operations—Methods for calculating Minimum Rates as the hourly rate payable to a Farm and livestock hand level 2 = $26.44. These rates are to be paid in accordance with clauses 18.2, 33.4, 51.3(b), 51.9 and 52.1.

Allowance | Clause | % of standard rate | $ | Payable

General Employment Conditions | | | |

Leading hand, in charge of—2 to 6 employees1 | 18.2(b)(i) | 115.0 | 30.41 | per week

Leading hand, in charge of—7 to 10 employees1 | 18.2(b)(i) | 134.0 | 35.43 | per week

Leading hand, in charge of—11 to 20 employees1 | 18.2(b)(i) | 191.0 | 50.50 | per week

Leading hand, in charge of—More than 20 employees1 | 18.2(b)(i) | 240.0 | 63.46 | per week

First aid allowance1 | 18.2(c) | 14.0 | 3.70 | per day

Broadacre Farming and Livestock Operations | | | |

Station hand—jetting, spraying, swabbing sheep | 33.4 | 17.0 | 4.49 | per day

Shearing Operations | | | |

Lack of amenities allowance | 51.3(b) | 51.5 | 13.62 | per day

Conditions allowance | 51.9(f) | 602.3 | 159.25 | per week

Enterprise flexibility allowance | 51.9(f) | 853.8 | 225.74 | per week

Woolrolling allowance | 51.9(f) | 426.8 | 112.85 | per week

Bookkeeping allowance | 51.9(f) | 277.5 | 73.37 | per week

Allowance where sleeping quarters not provided—to pay for sleeping quarters | 52.1(b) | 259.4 | 68.59 | per night

Allowance where sleeping quarters not provided—travel time in excess of one hour per day, between shed and sleeping quarters | 52.2 | 85.6 | 22.63 | per hour

Allowance where sleeping quarters not provided—travelling allowance (more than 65 km distance from shed)—Shearers (or Crutchers) only | 52.3(a) | 77.0 | 20.36 | per day

1 These allowances are payable for all purposes.

C.1.2 Adjustment of wage-related allowances

[C.1.2 renamed and substituted by PR750789 ppc 15Mar23]

The amount of each wage-related allowance is the percentage of the standard rate specified for the allowance and will automatically adjust to reflect the specified percentage when the standard rate is varied.

C.2 Expense-related allowances

[C.2.1 varied by PR724570, PR729479, PR740884, PR762308, PR774088, PR786739, PR799473 ppc 01Jul26]

C.2.1 The following expense-related allowances will be payable to employees and adjusted in accordance with clause C.2.2:

Allowance | Clause | $ | Payable

General Employment Conditions | | |

Use of vehicle allowance | 18.3(c) | 1.00 | per km

Meal allowance—overtime of more than 1.5 hours | 18.3(d)(i) | 17.90 | per meal

Meal allowance—overtime of more than 2 hours without required notice | 18.3(d)(ii) | 17.90 | per meal

Broadacre Farming and Livestock Operations | | |

With Keep deduction | 32.3 | 165.86 | per week

Station hand—to find own horse | 33.1(a) | 9.63 | per week

Station hand—to find own saddle | 33.1(b) | 7.69 | per week

Pig Breeding and Raising | | |

Meal allowance—overtime after working ordinary hours on Monday to Friday | 43.7(a) | 17.90 | per meal

Meal allowance—unplanned overtime of more than 2 hours | 43.7(b) | 17.90 | per meal

Shearing Operations | | |

Combs and cutters allowance | 50.5(b)(iv) | 24.36 | per week

Allowance where sleeping quarters not provided—vehicle allowance—all employees | 52.3(b) | 1.00 | per km

Fares and travelling allowances for expeditionary employees—motor vehicle expenses | 53.1(a) | 1.00 | per km

Fares and travelling allowances for expeditionary employees—expenses other than fares—per day | 53.1(f) | 104.77 | per day

Fares and travelling allowances for expeditionary employees—expenses other than fares—per hour rate | 53.1(g) | 4.36 | per hour

Shearers—shearing industry allowance | A.1.1 | 287.77 | per week

Shearers—rations | A.1.1 | 79.78 | per week

Shearers—combs/cutters allowance | A.1.1 | 121.75 | per week

Shearers—handpiece payment | A.1.1 | 27.52 | per week

Shed hands—shearing industry allowance | A.3.1 | 287.77 | per week

Shed hands—rations | A.3.1 | 79.78 | per week

Woolpressers—shearing industry allowance | A.4 | 287.77 | per week

Woolpressers—rations | A.4 | 79.78 | per week

Shearing cooks—69.58% of shearing industry allowance | A.5 | 200.23 | per week

C.2.2 Adjustment of expense-related allowances

(a) At the time of any adjustment to the standard rate, each expense-related allowance will be increased by the relevant adjustment factor. The relevant adjustment factor for this purpose is the percentage movement in the applicable index figure most recently published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics since the allowance was last adjusted.

(b) The applicable index figure is the index figure published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for the Eight Capitals Consumer Price Index (Cat No. 6401.0), as follows:

Allowance | Applicable Consumer Price Index figure

Allowance for combs/cutters | Tools and equipment for house and garden component of the household appliances, utensils and tools sub-group

Meal allowance | Take away and fast foods sub-group

Payment for handpiece | Tools and equipment for house and garden component of the household appliances, utensils and tools sub-group

Rations | Take away and fast foods sub-group

Shearing industry allowance | All groups

Special allowance (horse and saddle allowance) | All groups

Travelling allowance | Domestic holiday travel and accommodation sub-group

Vehicle allowance | Private motoring sub-group

With keep rate | All groups

C.2.3 Other allowances—Shearing Operations:

[C.2.3 varied by PR729290, PR740716, PR762145, PR773920, PR786573, PR799316 ppc 01Jul26]

Allowance | Clause | $ | Payable

Woolpressers—weighing and branding bales | 51.5(b) | 0.56 | per bale

Woolclassers—Conditions allowance | 51.9(f) | 159.25 | per week

Woolclassers—Enterprise flexibility (including hours) and wet weather allowance | 51.9(f) | 225.74 | per week

Woolrolling and other shed hands work allowance | 51.9(f) | 112.85 | per week

Bookkeeping, overseeing, experting allowance | 51.9(f) | 73.37 | per week

Breakdown of machinery—allowance for delays and termination of agreements—not found employees1 | 52.5(a)(ii) | 239.98 | per day

Breakdown of machinery—allowance for delays and termination of agreements—found employees1 | 52.5(a)(ii) | 197.93 | per day

1 See clause 52.5(b) for method of adjustment.